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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
promyelocytic leukemia (blood ... features in most cases ... promyelocytic #leukemia #APL ... #Hematology #Clinical ... #Smear
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytes, anemia ... her peripheral blood ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
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Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
plateletcount), peripheral blood ... smear, HIV/HCV ... changes), high MCV anemia ... not required in all ... #Workup #hematology
Spherocytes - The arrow points to one of many spherocytes in this photo. The cells have
This smear was from ...

Causes of spherocyte ... and hemolytic anemias ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood

Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
smear or on bone ... : Blast crises ... - infiltrates (anemia ... • Peripheral smear ... #Leukemia #Hematology
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
group of disorders caused ... Peripheral Smear ... Out Secondary Causes ... smear • Bone marrow ... Syndromes #diagnosis #hematology
Hematology Algorithms 

Anemia is described as a reduction in the proportion of the red blood cells.
Hematology Algorithms ... proportion of the red blood ... a decrease in all ... well as varying clinical ... These causes could
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
Phosphatase Of Clinical ... • Pernicious anemia ... deficiency • blood ... collection with EDTA Pathophysiology ... Phosphatase: • Other causes
Anemia of Hospitalization - Pathophysiology

Why does the Hgb/Hct drop in the first two days during hospitalization?

Interestingly,
- Pathophysiology ... the Journal of Clinical ... reasoning during clinical ... prolonged rest can cause ... #pathophysiology
CNS Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Clinical Manifestations: Demyelinating Syndrome, Headache, Movement disorders, Seizure disorders, Aseptic
Erythematosus (SLE) Clinical ... Disease, PRES Pathophysiology ... autoantibodies that will cause ... thrombosis and/or blood-brain ... (for secondary APS